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Kurt, how is your upcoming move coming along?


Don

I don't know if you can see me grinning through the computer screen, but I am!!!!! Tonight we got the body back on, the driveshaft in place, the carpeting installed, and the cooling system reconnected. This is the first time the driveshaft has ever been in the car in the whole time Dan has been building it, so it was cause for celebration.

Tomorrow we need to fill the rear with gear oil, the transmission with more fluid, the radiator with antifreeze, hook up the wiring again (it all just plugs in) , the steering back in, the brakes bled, and some other minor stuff and then we can push it outside to see if it will move under it's own power. Needless to say, Dan is on cloud nine and relieved that everything is going together so well, and all that pain and expense over the past 4-5 years is starting to be forgotten.

Hopefully, tomorrow night we will have a YouTube to post.

Don

Thats great to hear it's all comming together after so much time and expence.
The Move Huh!!! Well I would like to sayit's going well but 25 years of stuff, it's hard to decide whats going with me and whats just going, if you know what I mean.
Hopefully Mike's son is comming down from Tenn. to pick up this matel lathe.
I have had people calling for parts of it, but no buyers for the whole thing.
I'd rather give it to a freind from club hot rod then to part it out, atleast then I know it will be used for a good cause, like building hot rods. I'll have to give Mike 52 a call tomarrow to see if they still want it. I'd like to see them add it to thier future shop.
Then I'll be able to start really digging in and getting stuff packed in the shop.

Moving is one of the worst things in the world! It's amazing what stuff we can accumulate and we don't realize it until we start packing it up. As for that lathe, they are a very special item and you have to find that one special person who wants it. I've seen yours and it's really a very good one and built like a battleship (which it probably came off of). Hope it goes to a good home.

I'm still trying to wake up, didn't get in until 3:30 but couldn't fall asleep until almost 6 am. Guess I was too wired.

I was also a little PO'd because I got an email yesterday from the guy who built Dan's 9 inch Trackloc and mine as well. Dan's leaked right out of the box and mine started dripping after about 300 miles. We sent the old unit back to him and he says after checking it out the dripping was caused by us "overfilling" the rear! My email back to him was a little "pointed" and I told him that was BS. We filled both rears just until the gear oil started to ooze out, and the cars were dead level when we filled them.

When we bought these units about 4 years ago the one thing he stressed on the phone was that our warranty begins when we put the car in service because he knows that just because you buy a unit today you might not get it running for a long time. I have to admit he did stand behind that portion, however him trying to lay this off on us is pure BS. He said this whole thing was a "waste of time and money" but we were the ones who laid out all the money and time! We paid $ 100 shipping to get the replacement rear here, $36 to get the front section sent to him then another $ 54 to ship the rear portion to him. That's about $ 200 in shipping plus our time to pull it, box it, ship it, and install the new one. Not to mention the 2 quarts of gear oil we lost.

I won't go through him to fix the dripping one in my 27 but will find a local guy to fix it. That should also be cheaper than all the freight involved.

Don

Dripping 9 er eh????can you tell where its coming from???
There are some gaskets that don't fit the housings good but a common drip /leak area is thru the splines of the pinion---a dab of rite stuf behind pinion nut usually will fix that--
other areas---if the pinion preload is loose the pinion cna have more wobble/run out thab the seal will handle.

Jerry, both are leaking in exactly the same place, right from that seal that is in the front of the snout, right behind that deflector disc behind the yoke. (Not sure what that deflector plate is called, but it is the somewhat cup shaped tin plate behind the yoke). Gear oil runs right down that seal. Dans rear has never moved an inch yet and mine started dripping after 300 miles.

What really upset me was his email, which he even capitalized:


DON THIS HAS BEEN A BIG WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY . I GOT THE BOX TODAY THEN CHECKED IT ALL OUT . THE LEAKING WAS UP THE THREAD OF THE PINION BETWEEN THE NUT AND THE SPLINE . IT CAN ONLY DO THAT IF OVERFILLED .I HAVE HADE THE PROBLEM BEFOR AND CHANGED TO NUTS WITH SEALER ON THE THREAD . I REPEAT IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN IF OVERFILLED BEFOR THE SEAL IS SEATED DURING USE WHICH THIS UNIT NEVER GOT USED . T.J.


I sure hope the replacement he sent for Dan's car doesn't leak too.

Don

Wheels turn...........film at 11.


Got everything bolted up last night (late) and fired up the engine while on jackstands. All the gears work as they should and the new rear seems to not have any leaks. By the time we got the brakes bled, steering back in, etc it was too late and we were too tired for a test ride, but that will happen today.

To say we are relieved and that Dan is happy are understatements.


Don

Yaaaaaayyyy!!!!!!!!!!!

Good deal Now you can take it easy for a day or two lol

Well, we've got at least one more hard day to put in, that would be today. Still have to prep and paint the grille shell, put in his interior, and stuff like that, but after that I am taking up Olympic Napping on the Couch with cats, and Senior Citizen Crossword Puzzle tournaments. There isn't a bone in my body that doesn't hurt today. After this I don't even want to see a car project for quite a while.

But the lesson here was, even though the problems seemed so bleak a week or so ago, once you roll up you sleeves and just dig in, they really aren't all that bad.

Don

Don't forget the camera on the first ride or better yet the cam corder.
And drive really slow past them beaches PLEASE!!!
Kurt

Well, we didn't make it to the beach, but the parking lot in front of our shop has a zillion double black stripes about 100 feet long! Today Dan got to drive his car for the first time and he wasn't shy about putting his foot in it. He let me take it for a pass and IT HAULS! You can only stay in it for so long as it starts getting out of shape but it would literally burn the tires as long as you kept your foot in it.

We took it for a few mile ride around the industrial park and it rides and handles really well for a non dialed in car. There is no roughness to the ride and it tracks straight.

I did a couple of videos but we just got in (2 AM) and Dan has to work tomorrow AM so he doesn't have time to do a YouTube, but we will. He looks like a kid a Christmas, and I am so very happy for him and proud of all the hard work he put in for so many years. The pain of all that seems to be going away from him now.

We still have a few nights work ahead to finish up some stuff like the grille shell and little things, but Billetproof looks very possible right now.

Don

HE! HE! HE! Glad to hear all is going good for you two now.
I hate when someone builds a motor and then don't have the balls to get on it once in a while. Glad to hear either one of you guys don't have that problem, I mean heck what is the sence of building a hard pulling motor and then never having fun with it.
I hope all your hard work brings you guys years and years of fun with it.
May the car Gods smile down on you two.
Kurt

Better call Coker and get another pair of 'stones on the way.

Congrats Danny, been a long road, but here you be....

YEP, I saw it with my own eyes and Dan even let me slip behind the wheel for a spin around the block near our shop. To say this thing is powerful is a major understatement It looks and sounds awesome and Dan deserves it to be sure. WooHOO. Now I have to figure out how to get a 460 Ford in my T to keep up
Awesome Dan,
Don Jr.